the others have fled
here is just as good as there
end of the world

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arm in arm with Anne
a night in a haunted house
a mess o' money

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In The Dreaming Place:
That woman on the ladder
spilled my Sea-Monkeys.

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In The Dreaming Place:
Drifting above the danger,
I wield my besom.

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In The Dreaming Place:
The bathers hurry ashore
as the tide rolls in.

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In The Dreaming Place:
At an Irish jam session
Millar makes his move.

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In The Dreaming Place:
A Russian woman devours
all my black morels.

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And then Robert says,
"If I were a carpenter...
would you marry me?"

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this old house again
checking all the doors myself
lazy new landlord

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Skidding in the rain,
a little motorcycle
rear-ends a parked car.

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aimless wandering
along darkened corridors
abandoned convent

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In The Dreaming Place:
Keith Carradine grins at me,
mouth full of cocaine.

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A prayer for a priest:
If only I could reach him,
my touch would heal him.

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When last I was here
I vowed never to return.
A piecrust promise.

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without a penny
a grittier Toledo
across the river

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In The Dreaming Place:
Hungarian Rhapsody
on a Celtic harp

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an old photograph
Cucumber, West Virginia
I see the lips move

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In The Dreaming Place:
literally red-handed
at Deb Smithmyer's

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In The Dreaming Place:
hearing strains of Quentin's Theme
from another room

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in the hill country
Saint Anne's Reel and Soldier's Joy
front porch flatpickin'

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In The Dreaming Place:
on the way to buy doughnuts
Teddi and me, robbed

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In The Dreaming Place:
The Count of Carnality,
drinking my debauch

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a kid from grade school
so bashful he bawled at camp
TV weatherman

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Collapsing facade.
In the alley, a jazz band.
And the rain begins.

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